IDSA Comments

Pakistan’s conciliatory approach towards India is tactical and could change rapidly if the army decides that its interests are better served through a more offensive posture.

• Sushant Sareen
• July 13, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The US is stopping the shuttle programme by design and not for want of technology or money; nor does discontinuing the space shuttle indicate that the US has lost the space race.

• Ajey Lele
• July 13, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Civil society in general and the strategic community in particular must demand the release of documents pertaining to India’s security.

• Satish Nambiar
• July 06, 2011
• IDSA Comments

An expanded role beyond its borders, including R2P, needs to be included in NATO’s concept to ensure its future relevance.

• Allyd Paynter
• July 06, 2011
• IDSA Comments

A continuation of Australia’s ban on the sale of uranium to India is likely to hinder the goal of building a strategic partnership and exploring complementarities in the defence and maritime domain.

• Rajaram Panda
• July 06, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The success of high-level talks between India and Pakistan would depend on how the media shape popular opinion in the two countries and popular support to take the relationship forward.

• Shamshad A. Khan
• June 29, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Though Pakistan and Afghanistan still continue to be embroiled in religious and ethnic conflict, the rest of South Asia appears keen to check and go beyond such tendencies.

• Anand Kumar
• June 20, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Under the November 2010 statement issued by India and the United States, India is committed to take only one step: harmonizing its export controls with those of all the four multilateral export controls regimes.

• Rajiv Nayan
• June 18, 2011
• IDSA Comments

If the Army withers away then a fragmentation of Pakistan into a ‘Lebanonized’ state would become inevitable.

• P. K. Upadhyay
• June 17, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Given the reluctance of Nepal’s political parties to further extend the term of the Constituent Assembly, lack of progress in implementing the five-point deal will result in the CA becoming defunct by the end of August.

• Uddhab Pyakurel
• June 17, 2011
• IDSA Comments